The purpose of this assignment is to create an educational program that supports the implementation of risk management strategies in a health care organization.

In this assignment, you will develop an outline for an “in‐service”‐style educational risk management program for employees of a particular health care organization that will then form the basis for a PowerPoint presentation in Topic 5. 

Select your topic for this educational session from one of the proposed recommendations or changes you suggested in the Risk Management Program Analysis – Part One assignment to enhance, improve, or secure compliance standards in your chosen risk management plan example.

Create a 500‐word comprehensive outline that communicates the following about your chosen topic:

1. Introduction: Identify the risk management topic you have chosen to address and why it is important within your health care sector.
2. Rationale: Illustrate how this risk management strategy is lacking within your selected organization’s current risk management plan and explain how its implementation will better meet local, state, and federal compliance standards.
3. Support: Provide data that indicate the need for this proposed risk management initiative and demonstrate how it falls under the organization’s legal responsibility to provide a safe health care facility and work environment.
4. Implementation: Describe the steps to implement the proposed strategy in your selected health care organization.
5. Challenges: Predict obstacles the health care organization may face in executing this risk management strategy and propose solutions to navigate or preempt these potentially difficult outcomes.
6. Evaluation: Outline your plan to evaluate the success of the proposed risk management program and how well it meets the organization’s short-term, long-term, and end goals.
7. Opportunities: Recommend additional risk management improvements in adjacent areas of influence that the organization could or should address moving forward.

You are required to incorporate all instructor feedback from this assignment into Educational Program on Risk Management Part Two ‐ Slide Presentation assignment in Topic 5. To save time later in the course, consider addressing any feedback soon after this assignment has been graded and returned to you. It may be helpful to preview the requirements for the Topic 5 assignment to ensure that your outline addresses all required elements for submission of the final presentation.

You are required to support your statements with a minimum of six citations from appropriate credible sources.

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, 

This assignment uses a rubric. 

Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

RUBRIC

 1. An introduction is comprehensive. The submission incorporates analysis of supporting evidence as to why increased attention to the proposed risk 

management strategy is needed and provides specific examples of why it is important within the specified health care sector. Level of detail is appropriate. 

2.  A rationale is comprehensive. The submission provides specific examples of where the proposed risk management strategy is lacking in the selected plan and

 provides insightful supporting evidence as to how its implementation will better meet compliance standards. Level of detail is appropriate. 

3.  Support data are comprehensive. The submission incorporates an analysis of how the data indicate a need for the proposed risk management initiative. Level of 

detail is appropriate. 

4.  Implementation strategies are comprehensive. The submission provides 

specific actionable steps by which the selected health care organization can implement the proposed risk management initiative. Level of detail is appropriate. 

5.  Possible challenges to the risk management implementation are comprehensive. The submission provides specific relevant examples of solutions 

for navigating or preempting predicted obstacles. Level of detail is appropriate. 

6.  Evaluation strategies are comprehensive. The submission provides specific examples of how the evaluation plan will assess alignment with the short-term, long-term, and end goals of the risk management program. Level of detail is appropriate. 

7.  Additional risk management opportunities are described comprehensively, with detailed support for the recommended changes. Level of detail is appropriate. 

8.  Thesis is comprehensive and contains the essence of the paper. Thesis statement makes the purpose of the paper clear. 

9.  Clear and convincing argument presents a persuasive claim in a distinctive and compelling manner. All sources are authoritative. 

10.  The writer is clearly in command of standard, written, academic English. 

11.  All format elements are correct. 

12.  Sources are completely and correctly documented, as appropriate to assignment and style, and format is free of error. Research and citations are supportive of the rationale presented. Sources are distinctive. Addresses all of the issues stated in the assignment criteria. 

Part two: POWERPOINT

Topic:  

Educational Program on Risk Management Part Two – Slide Presentation 

 

The purpose of this assignment is to create an educational risk management presentation.

Building upon the outline for an educational session you created in the Educational Program on Risk Management Part One: Outline of Topic 2 assignment, develop a 12-15 slide PowerPoint presentation that expands in greater detail on how and why your organization should implement your proposed risk management strategy. Incorporate any instructor feedback from the Topic 2 assignment into this presentation and include talking points in the speaker notes section of each slide.

Keep in mind that the PowerPoint is meant to serve as a visual aide to bolster your presentation and is intended to highlight main ideas and key points. 

Do not use dense blocks of text or more than 7 bullet points of text per slide.  However, you may include supplementary images, graphs, and data where relevant.

To successfully complete this assignment, include the following sections as per your outline from Topic 2 from 500 words paper, though you may include any additional sections as needed:

1. Introduction
2. Rationale
3. Support
4. Implementation
5. Challenges
6. Evaluation
7. Opportunities

You are required to support your statements with a minimum of six citations from appropriate credible sources.

While APA style is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected, and documentation of sources should be presented using APA formatting guidelines.

This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

RUBRIC

1.  Introduction slides are informative and thorough in explaining why increased attention to the proposed risk management strategy is needed. Specific examples are provided where appropriate. 

2.  Rationale slides are informative and thorough in explaining why the proposed risk management strategy is lacking in the selected plan. Specific examples are provided as to how its implementation will better meet compliance standards. 

3.  Support data slides are informative and thorough in showing how the data indicate a need for the proposed risk management initiative. Specific examples are provided where appropriate. 

4.  Implementation slides are informative and thorough in explaining the specific actionable steps by which the selected health care organization can implement the proposed risk management initiative. 

5.  Challenges slides are informative and thorough in explaining potential obstacles to the risk management implementation. Slides also provide specific examples of solutions for navigating or preempting predicted obstacles. 

6.  Evaluation strategy slides are informative and thorough in providing specific examples of how the evaluation plan will assess alignment with the short-term, long-term, and end goals of the risk management program. 

7.  Opportunities slides are informative and thorough in providing additional risk management improvements along with detailed support for the recommended changes. 

8.  Incorporation of instructor feedback from previous assignment is comprehensive. 

9.  The content is written clearly and concisely. Ideas universally progress and relate to each other. The project includes motivating questions and advanced organizers. The project gives the audience a clear sense of the main idea. 

10.  The layout is visually pleasing and contributes to the overall message with appropriate use of headings, subheadings, and white space. Text is appropriate in length for the target audience and to the point. The background and colors enhance the readability of the text. 

11.  The writer uses a variety of sentence constructions, figures of speech, and word choice in distinctive and creative ways that are appropriate to purpose, discipline, and scope. 

12.  Writer is clearly in control of standard, written, academic English. 

13.  Sources are completely and correctly documented, as appropriate to assignment and style, and format is free of error. Research and citations are supportive of the rationale presented. Sources are distinctive and addresses all of the issues stated in the assignment criteria. 

300 WORDS PAPER

TOPIC : 

Reflective Analysis: Risk Management and the Role of Managed Care

 

The purpose of this assignment is to analyze the role of managed care organizations within health care and risk management programs.

Reflect on and evaluate the role that the managed care organization (MCO) plays in today’s health care environment by developing a 300word response that addresses the following:

1. What is a health care organization’s administrative role in executing risk management policies and ensuring compliance with managed care organization (MCO) standards?
2. What value do the regulatory statutes of a typical MCO provide to a health care organization? Consider how strategies pertaining to policies such as conflict resolution and risk management affect patients as well as employees and employers.
3. What MCO responsibilities relevant to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) and Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) focus on fraud, waste, and abuse laws?

In addition to your textbook, you are required to support your analysis with a minimum of two peer‐reviewed references.

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide. 

This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

 

RUBRIC

1.   An assessment of the administrative role of a health care organization in ensuring compliance with MCO risk management standards is comprehensive. The submission further incorporates analysis of supporting evidence insightfully and provides specific examples with relevance. Level of detail is appropriate. 

2.  An explanation of the value MCO regulatory statutes provide to a health care organization is present and comprehensive. The submission further incorporates analysis of supporting evidence insightfully and provides specific examples with relevance. Level of detail is appropriate. 

3.  A description of the MCO responsibilities relative to the ACA and CMS focus on fraud, waste, and abuse laws are comprehensive. The submission further incorporates the analysis of supporting evidence insightfully and provides specific examples with relevance. The level of detail is appropriate. 

4.  The thesis is comprehensive and contains the essence of the paper. The thesis statement makes the purpose of the paper clear. 

5.  A clear and convincing argument presents a persuasive claim in a distinctive and compelling manner. All sources are authoritative. 

6.  The writer is clearly in command of standard, written, academic English. 

7.  All format elements are correct. 

8.  Sources are completely and correctly documented, as appropriate to assignment and style, and format is free of error. 

TOPIC: Benchmark – Part B: Literature Review

In Part A, you described the population and quality initiative related to your PICOT (Population/Problem, Intervention, Comparison, Outcome, and Time to achieve the outcome) statement. In this assignment, you will formalize your PICOT and research process.

Use the GCU Library to perform a search for peer-reviewed research articles. Find five peer-reviewed primary source translational research articles.

In a paper of 1,250-1,500 words, synthesize the research into a literature review. The literature review should provide an overview for the reader that illustrates the research related to your particular PICOT. Include the following:

1. Introduction: Describe the clinical issue or problem you are addressing.
2. Methods: Describe the criteria you used in choosing your articles
3. Synthesize the Literature: Part A: Discuss the main components of each article (subjects, methods, key findings) and provide rationale for how this supports your PICOT; Part B: Compare and contrast the articles: Discuss limitations, controversies, and similarities/differences of the studies.
4. Areas of Further Study: Analyze the evidence presented in your articles to identify what is known, unknown, and requires further study.

You are required to cite 7 to 10 sources to complete this assignment. Sources must be published within the last 5 years and appropriate for the assignment criteria and nursing content.

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide.

You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. Please refer to the directions in the Student Success Center.

STUDY MATERIALS

Read Chapters 8 and 9 in Population Health: Creating a Culture of Wellness.  URL: https://www.gcumedia.com/digital-resources/jones-and-bartlett/2015/population-health_creating-a-culture-of-wellness_2e.php  

Read Chapter 9 in Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing and Healthcare.  URL: http://gcumedia.com/digital-resources/wolters-kluwer/2014/evidence-based-practice-in-nursing-and-healthcare_a-guide-to-best-practice_ebook_3e.php